Life and Death of Ancient Cities. A Natural History, Hardback - Greg Woolf

The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, ...

Reducere. The growth of the modern world urban system is the greatest episode of urban growth there has ever been, but it is not the first. Three thousand ye...

This book explores issues of definition and the essential elements of cities, offering a new heuristic typology of cities. It reviews case studies ...

An original and revelatory exploration of the hidden world of slime - the substance upon which we and our world depend.Publisher: Granta BooksAutho...

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Publisher: Somerset Archaeological and Natural History SocietyAuthor(s): Sue BakerIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 25...

"Stradley has]...a clipped, hard-hitting narrative style that makes no excuses and offers no apologies. Boxing fans interested in this...tragic fig...

DescriptionThroughout British history rivers have been of profound economic, social and cultural importance--yet as we see with increasing frequenc...

Reducere. Raised in a restrictive and oppressive household, Harriet Frean is used to sacrificing her own happiness and comfort for the sake of others, in fac...

Sellers has long been acknowledged as one of the screen's greatest comic actors. In this biography, Roger Lewis draws on over 300 interviews with S...

Reducere. * “The most complete and successful biography of the Fuehrer available for this audience.”—SLJ, starred review Many people believe Hitler was the p...

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire Tomalin Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize Witty, ...

A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationshi...

The true story of one of the biggest financial scandals in recent history reaches very different conclusions to the standard narrative.Publisher: B...

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople monastery of Stoudios and the me...

Reducere. Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan...

In this extraordinary investigation based on extensive documentary research and dozens of interviews with the key players, Brian Brivati sets out t...

Publisher: Myrtle PressIllustration(s): 16 colour platesNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 146 x 224 x 23Cover type: HardbackRed...

A biography that offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by de...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Rebecca WoolfNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 239 x 27Cover type: Hard...

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Reducere. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important oper...

A new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both, in the course o...

First English translation of a Greek novella first published in 1920 by the Corfiot author Konstantinos Theotokis. A tragi-comedy of Corfiot villag...

Reducere. Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his s...

Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox's encounter with a ding...

Reducere. The True Story of The Original Tabloid Blonde! Before Anna Nicole, Before Pam Anderson, there was Jayne Mansfield. The original working mom with se...

DescriptionNorthern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. ...

Reducere. Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart, Paperback

Of all the screen juveniles groomed for stardom by Warner Brothers in the 1930s, few were touted as highly by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner as Ross Al...

Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cin...